August 18, 2017

Bannon Out

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Someone mentioned yesterday that it seems that leaks are way down following the firing of Reince Priebus. I have been gone and missed a lot but that seems overall to be true to me, tho' maybe the leaks have been submerged by all the brouhaha resulting from Charlottesville so that the Media hasn't needed to publicize leaks to generate Anti-Trump memes. What do you guys think?

I would have loved to have heard Dennis's monolog on this yesterday. My only complaint with the attached News video is that they downplay what the Lefty UCLA Professors who organized the boycott actually said about Dennis. They said Dennis was a racist and a hate filled bigot who promoted genocide. Now why would the News Media fail to report that?

You have more skill than that, TK.
Ben Shapiro is married to a lovely woman and has two children. Find another, more fitting insult. You can even use the hoary "shorty" one even though Shapiro is not in Robert Reichchchchchch territory. xxxxxhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RsSkinxpac

To be fair to Chelsea (gak), I doubt many US Protestant churches have Lucifer anywhere. The fact that she missed the Confederate memorials in Little Rock says
1) they should stay to remind people of Southern history
2) her parents did nothing about them
3) she's an idiot.

What Drutman describes as a “split in the Republican Party between populists and conservatives” can also be interpreted as a division between the party of Trump and the Grand Old Party. The two parties may agree on some issues, but they differ in tone and outlook and on crucial policy questions. It is difficult for them to function as a coalition government. Trump’s health care reform is stalled in Congress, his tax reform is inchoate, and his infrastructure plan is nonexistent. The two parties are able to unite against the left, but have trouble finding common legislative ground.

WTF? When? Where? But I can't disagree with this:

Recent events have brought to light the distinction between the party of Trump and the GOP. But it would be foolish for Democrats to believe that they are out of the woods, that America has settled, for the moment, on a three-party system. What we have are four parties: The mainstream Republicans, the party of Trump, the mainstream Democrats, and the party of Sanders.

But, if anything, Trump has disabused those of us paying attention of the notion that there's a whit of difference between part #1 and party #3 of the above listed four.

Or 4) She walked past it a million times and never took the time to stop and look at it.

Which is what most people do with statues like that. They see some dude on horse, but they've no idea who the dude was or what he did and they don't care. Or they didn't care up until the Left decided to use the statues to re-ignite the Civil War, because that's all they've got left in their arsenal to take Trump down.

Will it work? Not if the latest Maris poll is right. 62% of the country--including 44% of the AAs--want to leave the statues right where they are.

--That residue will not disappear when Yawkey Way is renamed, but it also does not need to diminish the positive impact the Yawkey Trust, funded primarily by the $700 million sale of the team when Henry came aboard, still makes today for multiple worthy causes in Boston and New England.--

So they're going to slur the guy's name and disparage his legacy, when it comes to the street named after him, but they're not going to demand that the Yawkey Trust change its name? Gee, I wonder why?

""strong" Dems"
What is a ""strong" Dem"? Is that one that promotes as many abortions as possible? Or Works to make sure illegals or never stopped from breaking into America? or works as hard as possible to defeat America?

Glenda:
I believe everyone should shelter their assets and those with children should make sure their inheritance is secure.Also insurance back up plans should be invested in pronto until Congress gets their act together.

Meanwhile, the misguided and easily led in La-La Land were on display and missed the part that the Antifa and BLM were brought in from *outside* Charlottesville to crack skulls:

We are here to stand with the people of Charlottesville, they were on the right side of history, when they took to the streets to oppose those fascist KKK white supremacist swamp things," an organizer said over a megaphone. "Anybody who is opposed to this rally is defending the KKK, they're defending nazis and white supremacy, there is a line dividing society right now, which fu**ing side are people on?

Well as a kid in Arlington I went to Stonewall Jackson Elementary in the mid-60's but it no longer exists under that name. It is now known as Arlington Traditional School. A link I just read said Stonewall Jackson had been closed for 15 years since 1979 before it reopened as Arlington Traditional.

This is good. It explains why 62% of the country is looking at this statue hysteria and thinking to themselves, "These people are insane." While the 27% of the country who are tearing down the statues and wanting to blow up the Jefferson Memorial and Mt. Rushmore are doubling down on their insanity.

I live a few blocks from Robert E. Lee Road in town. You'll all be shocked to hear that someone spraypainted the street signs in blood red. Maybe just last night - I drive down it every day and I only just noticed today.

We had a Robert E. Lee Elementary here in town but its name was changed to Russell Lee last year.

Mr. Porch graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in Baton Rouge. They already closed it ages ago so they can't rename it.

Funny note - a year or so ago there was a prankster putting up funny fake signs on intersections - the handwritten kind you see advertising garage sales. I can't remember all the different amusing ones but one of them advertised a garage sale on "Robert E. Lee Road AKA Al Sharpton Blvd." I do not think he was an Al Sharpton fan.

Maryrose, having been in both sides of the business--first as a reporter and then as a media spokesperson for a large federal government agency--I can say from experience that it takes a lot of self-discipline on the part of a spokesperson to stay on message and not succumb to a reporter stroking your ego and manipulating you into talking out of school. The bigger your ego, the easier it's going to be to manipulate you.

Also, having been somewhat inside the inner workings of a previous WH administration, I can say most people have no idea of the huge power struggles that go on between the players inside the Oval. You leak to consolidate and advance your power and to cut down the other guy's. There literally is no other feeling in the world like the kind of power that lives inside the Oval. If you're not careful you can get to the point where you'd stab your mother in the heart to climb up even one more rung on the ladder of that power.

Maybe I won't have to bulldoze the ADN into oblivion. From todays updates:

---Rogoff said she has sunk at least $17 million of her own money into Alaska Dispatch News since buying the previously named Anchorage Daily News in 2014 for $34 million...

---GCI filed an eviction lawsuit accusing Alaska Dispatch News of not paying some rent and utility bills. An eviction has the potential to wreck the business because there would be nowhere else to print the newspaper...

---A federal bankruptcy judge and Northrim Bank on Thursday allowed Alaska Dispatch News to use $80,000 of its money to pay its carriers, ensuring that the newspaper will continue to be delivered

---Alaska Dispatch News "couldn't afford to make payroll next week if it doesn't use the money the Binkleys have,"

The Binkley's are the potential new buyers, offering $1 Million for the rag. My guess is this time next year it won't exist.

Derwill:
Thank you for explaining the inner workings of the Oval Office.
Lust for power and position really is the Achilles heel of politicians and reporters.
Sadly when they are jockeying for position ,the will and needs of the American people are not considered.

I never suspected Priebus of leaking, which probably points out how naive I am, but Ol' Yeller and Tammy were on his case from the get go; Tammy suspecting that he was talking with party insiders and Levin pointing out that Reince was never damaged or implicated by any of them. Neither of them suspected Bannon afaik.

So while the Left has trapped a third of the country inside a hysteria bubble over statues, and the GOP is cleverly setting their hair on fire with a blow torch--is anyone noticing that in the last couple of weeks vans and knives are ramping up attacks in Europe at a rapid pace?

Well now I have something in common with Chelsea Clinton - I've never been to a church with a Lucifer statue either. Haven't been to Notre Dame. Must own up to my ignorance - why the heck is there a Lucifer statue in Notre Dame?

Of course, it is an enormous lie that Trump ever called white nationalists very fine people. He explicitly condemned them. His comment was obviously referring to the non-racist protesters dismayed by the removal of Lee’s statue. Notice that nobody in the press actually quotes Trump’s statement, since that would expose their “reporting” as despicable propaganda worthy of a Soviet show trial.

Derwill:
So true.
Charlottesville is the Left's squirrel of the we
Ryan and McConnell already have their positions in government.
I doubt they are leakers and they must answer to the President.People are free to leave the Republican Party.
For now I am staying right where I am.

A little off topic but still interesting. I laughed and I got nervous reading the list of movies and books the Gitmo detainee's were able to access at the library. Read it and you'll understand. Evidently, Harry Potter is a fav. Of course, he is in a prison!